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«Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.»
«The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.»
«Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.»
«The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony»
«The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.»
Author: Charles Manson | About: Strength | Keywords: phony, prove
«To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it really is, right?»
«Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.»
«Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?»
Author: Pope Paul VI (Pope) | About: Memory | Keywords: anniversaries, anniversary, clutches, phony